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We have had a huge jar of cashew butter sitting in the fridge for the longest time now and im not really sure why! I forgot there for a little while how yummy and slightly sweet cashew butter is. I have been wanting to make some protein balls for a while now to have before or after workouts or as a quick snack at work. So i decided why not make some with cashew butter? Seriously, so good. I even have it for dessert most nights because it tastes like a sweet and salty cookie!

Here is what you will need:

5 Tbsp. of Cashew butter (I used Sprouts brand, salted)

1.5 tbsp. of milled flaxseed

.5 scoop of protein powder

.3 cup of steel cut oats

.5tbsp of Manuka honey (any honey will do, but manuka honey has really great health benefits)

Add a couple tablsepoons of water or unsweetened almond milk until reached desired consistency. Makes about 10 balls.

Okay, I am totally aware of the fact that these look like turd droppings but I promise they make up for it in taste!

These cookies are perfect for when you want something a little sweet, but don’t want to totally blow your calories for the day! These are so easy to make and the best part is you can eat the whole batch for under 250 calories! If you have ever wanted to eat a whole plate of cookies, now is your chance! Now if your expecting these cookies to taste like nestle tollhouse cookies or your grandmas homemade chocolate chip cookies than your in the wrong place, but I think they are pretty tasty and definitely help curb my 3 0’clock sweet tooth! Since I am now counting Macros, this recipe makes it easy to get in a few cookies without totally blowing my carbs for the day!

I’m so glad Carson is at an age now were we can give him a much greater variety of things to eat. Even though Carson will mostly eat anything I give him, his diet still seems to mostly consist of anything cheesy/carby. Which doesn’t surprise me, cause that’s all I craved when I was pregnant with him. Cheese bagels with butter were my jam!

Recently, I’ve been trying to add more greens and veggies into his diet. Some of Carson’s favorite foods are bananas, oatmeal, cheese cubes, cheerios, bread, greek yogurt, kiwi, avocado, and against my better judgment a bite of dad’s donut every now and then! Notice how no veggies were listed? Don’t get me wrong, he does eat veggies just not on a daily basis. Even then, he doesn’t necessarily love them like the foods listed above. So since it’s kind of hard to give a 1 year old salad, I decided to give him a spinach smoothie with banana and frozen strawberries. And much to my surprise, he loved it! Also, it kept him occupied for about 20 min. in his highchair while I did the dishes, so I’m all for that!

Ingredients:

Handful of Spinach

1/4 of a banana

3 or 4 frozen strawberries

4 Tablespoons of water

I used the baby bullet, which is perfect, because its tiny and super easy to clean. Its so nice to not have to lug out our huge ninja blender for such a small smoothie.

You know its got to be good when the hands are up and the eyes are closed..

I made these cookies last week for Jordan, since he had been on a cookie craving the past couple days. Instead of having to make everything from scratch, I used just a cake mix box and some chocolate chips. These cookies turned out perfect and made quite a few! Unfortunately, the pics didn’t turn out super well. Since the cake mix was marble chocolate, the cocoa powder ended up giving these cookies a brownish look. So in the pics they look a little burnt. But they aren’t, they were deliscous and passed the test. Jordan is my taste tester and he gave them a thumbs up.

Here is what you will need:

A cake mix box (I used marble)

1/2 cup of chocolate chips

2 eggs

2/3 cup of Vegetable oil

I made these cookies according to the directions on the back of the box, added the chocolate chips and cooked for about 10 minutes. This cake mix made a ton of cookies. Over 24! It was so simple, I will definitely be making more cookies like this in the future!

As I was cleaning out my freezer the other day I realized I had like 5 bags of frozen fruit from when I was on a smoothie kick a few months ago. So since I had way to much frozen fruit taking up space in my freezer, I decided to use it to make some fruit muffins. Most of the fruit I had frozen was strawberries and blueberries so that’s what I used. I pretty much just threw what I had on hand for the recipe and thankfully it all came together! Here is the recipe:

First combine the flour, salt and baking powder in a medium bowl and stir. In a large bowl beat the butter and stevia together then add vanilla. Add the eggs in one at a time and stir between each one. After eggs are mixed well, stir in half of the flour mixture and then half of the cream(half and half). Do this till both are gone. Just stir enough to were everything is mixed. Don’t overly stir! Next, add the fruit and gently fold the berries in. I added about 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to make it extra yummy. Grease a muffin tin and fill about half way full with batter. Bake for about 20 min or until golden at 375 degrees.

I was skeptical at first if these muffins would even turn out since I used stevia instead of sugar but to my surprise they were perfect! Jordan hates strawberries and he even gobbled them up!

I saw the original recipe for these the other day and knew I wanted to try them. Jordan doesn’t usually like to eat nuts unless they are covered in chocolate, so once I came across these I knew they would be perfect as a healthier substitute. The original recipe called for just cashews, but since cashews and walnuts were both on sale at sprouts I decided to do both. I also decided to use unsweetened cocoa to give it a little bit of a chocolatey flavor. This recipe is also whole 30 and paleo friendly! Here is the recipe:

-1/2 cup of walnuts

-1/2 cup of cashews

-2 teaspoons of coconut oil

-1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

-1/2 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder

-1 tablespoon of maple syrup (optional)

Place the cashews and walnuts in a bowl. Add the coconut oil, cinnamon, and unsweetened cocoa powder. Stir everything together and spread out on a baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes at 325 degrees.

I personally thought they were addicting and delicious, but of course Jordan decided to mix his portion with chocolate chips. 😜

Hi there! I am Savana Duncan and welcome to The Duncan Diaries! This is where I share about our life, DIY Projects, recipes, the joys of motherhood and more! Jesus is my passion and coffee is my fuel! So glad you are here!